Hangin' Out With Pro Athletes...No Big Deal...

This morning at Drake Relays I was doing some drills and I looked up to see 400m Olympic Gold Medalist and World Champion, Jeremy Wariner, jog by. He then started stretching a little ways away from me so I pretended that I had to go over there and stretch too. I eavesdropped a tad bit but nothing interesting was said and I started feeling like a stalker so I left. Later I told my coach about it and he said that if I had a 100m head start on Jeremy Wariner in a 400m race, Wariner would still win. HAHA soooo true. Well, if he had a 100m head start on me in the steeplechase, I think I might win. So HA!

Here are some videos of Jeremy Wariner being a beast:

2004 Olympics (Athens)

World Championships (Helsinki)

3rd fastest time EVER run by a human... (Stockholm)

How to Weird People Out On a Bus

1) Unannounced, silent staring contest with a stranger. Step it up a notch by licking your lower lip several times during the contest.

2) Mutter things violently under your breath. Throw in words like "kill", "thirst for blood", and "walls closing in".

3) Throw yourself against the wall and then the floor and run into a couple people then look confused and say "Hmm... the gravity shifts only effect me..."

4) Practice smiling at people with only half your face.

5) Practice frowning at people with only half your face.

6) Make your eyes as large as possible and when you have to blink, make it cause a shutter through your entire body.

7) Sit on the floor cross-legged and facing the back of the bus.

8) Play a game where you can't close your mouth for the entire ride. If this doesn't get a reaction, also try touching your chin to your belly button.

9) Sit really really close to the only other passenger on the bus.

10) On a crowded bus, where it is standing room only, rest your chin on the shoulder of the person in front of you. If they are taller than you, just try your best.

Projects Suck. I'm Tired.

Here is a trend I have noticed with projects: they are always at least one thousand times more irritating than you think they will be when they are first introduced by a professor. On the outside they look all cute and innocent and you suspect that it is going to be only mildly annoying to complete but on the inside they are completely terrible and capable of sucking every ounce of life out of your previously happy soul. Projects are a vicious trap for your everyday procrastinator (like me and 98.8% of college students--if you get things done in advance you are kinda weird).

If I cared less about my grades/ my future I would:

- Write a paper where it begins with typed words then switches to pen, then pencil, then devolves into crayoned pictures of me burning the paper using laser beams that shoot out from my eyes.

- Make a powerpoint presentation where the first slide looks all normal and the second slide says "POWERPOINT OVER. SUCK IT!"

- Instead of turning in a report, turn in my textbook with the author's name sharpied out and my name replacing it. Attach a post-it saying which section of "my work" contains the topic of interest.

- Turn in photos of how I occupied my time not doing the project with a note saying "My weekend was funner than urs."

Easter Skulls

I just got back from Easter church and it was the most bizarre service I have ever been to.

1) The preacher man had a very thick accent and was difficult to understand.

2) The bulk of the Easter message was about the preacher man's grandfather who had been a village chief and then died and everyone wanted his skull to go in a cave with all the other chiefs' skulls so they could drink together in the afterlife. When his grandfather was buried in a separate place, the chickens stopped laying eggs and they cows stopped giving milk so they unearthed him, got his skull, and moved it to the cave. What does this have to do with Easter? EVERYTHING OF COARSE!!!! Thats why we eat chocolate chiefs and decorate Easter skulls!

3) Towards the end, during a completely silent part, a child shouted, "Is it over?"

I wish little man, I wish.

HAPPY EASTER!

Genius

Right now I am witnessing an asian kid at the engineering building playing two silmultaneous games of tetris at the speed of light. It is fascinating. He doesn't know I am watching him...

Life Goes On

So, a couple weeks ago, I thought to myself: I am going to write on my blog more often.

2 projects and 3 exams later I have not written at all. Well, I want to write on it more. I am going to make myself write at least every other day from now until the end of April. I don't really know why but I am feeling inspired to do so by my friend Katie.

Here are some things that have occurred in the last couple of weeks:

- Covering myself in white makeup and fake blood to go to Zombie Prom with Austin, Lynnea, Betsy, Nikki, Katie, and Willy.

- Cooling down after a hard workout with Katherin Rehn and having blood start to poor out of my nose uncontrollably.

- Got a physical for my job this summer that required the normal hearing, vision and drug tests but also a breathing test, chest x-ray, and EKG. 4 nurses came in to do the EKG because they had never seen one done before which involved a lot of staring and pointing. I am starting to think this job is going to be really intense...

-My friends Austin and Hilary both had their birthdays!!!

- Pepper found a dead mouse in my room and a live mouse stuck in the floor vent in the kitchen.

- Zombies vs. Humans was cut short when a Zombie chased a Human in to the path of a car.

- Ashton Kutcher was at the Engineering building for an hour but only Megan Ranegar got to see him. Lucky face.

I LOVE STORMS AND NATURAL DISASTERS

There is something absolutely intriguing about them. I always hope stuff gets damaged in storms so I can be one of those annoying gawkers who drives by and stares. Also, there is this small hope somewhere deep inside that school will be demolished and I will just get a degree for being "close enough".

Well, I suspect that there are a lot of people who like storms but I am not really sure so I put a poll gadget on the side of my page so I can poll all five people who ever read this!